Overview
- Explores transhumanism from an Islamic point of view
- Seeks insight from Islamic religious canon as well as from works of philosophy, literature, and poetry
- Presents an alternative vision of Islam that has more kinship with transhumanist ideals than many may presume
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors (PSFHS)
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About this book
This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: ‘Man’ is replaced by ‘Superman’. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement concerns the central question of what this ‘Superman’ – or ‘Supermuslim’ – would actually entail. To look at what Islam can contribute we need not restrict ourselves to the Qur’an and the legal tradition, but also reach out to its philosophical and literary corpus. Roy Jackson focuses on such contributions from Muslim philosophy, science, and literature to see how Islam can confront and respond to the challenges raised by the growing movement of transhumanism.
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–Stefano Bigliardi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Roy Jackson is a Reader in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of numerous books on topics such as Islamic Philosophy, Nietzsche and Islam, political Islam, philosophy of religion, and the interaction between Islamic and western philosophy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim and Supermuslim
Book Subtitle: The Quest for the Perfect Being and Beyond
Authors: Roy Jackson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37093-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37092-3Published: 06 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37095-4Published: 06 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37093-0Published: 05 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-6592
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 198
Topics: Islamic Theology, Philosophy of Man, Middle Eastern Literature